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This is the book synopsis. Looks interesting.
>Underpinned by science, materialism seems to have established itself in public opinion as the only viable option for any kind of rational worldview. The young Dutch philosopher Bernardo Kastrup, displaying a frank scepticism, dissents from this way of seeing things and, with the logical clarity of empirical evidence, reveals its absurd epistemological contradictions. Within a different and coherent frame of reference, from which any physical law or natural phenomenon can be interpreted without falling into the usual materialistic assumptions, the brain is the image of a self-localised process in the mind, just as a whirlpool is the image of a self-localised process in water, but just as the whirlpool does not generate the water, neither does the brain generate the mind, since it is the brain that is in the mind, not the mind in the brain.
>The present framing of the cultural debate in terms of materialism versus religion has allowed materialism to go unchallenged as the only rationally-viable metaphysics. This book seeks to change this. It uncovers the absurd implications of materialism and then, uniquely, presents a hard-nosed non-materialist metaphysics substantiated by skepticism, hard empirical evidence, and clear logical argumentation. It lays out a coherent framework upon which one can interpret and make sense of every natural phenomenon and physical law, as well as the modalities of human consciousness, without materialist assumptions. According to this framework, the brain is merely the image of a self-localization process of mind, analogously to how a whirlpool is the image of a self-localization process of water. The brain doesn’t generate mind in the same way that a whirlpool doesn’t generate water. It is the brain that is in mind, not mind in the brain. Physical death is merely a de-clenching of awareness. The book closes with a series of educated speculations regarding the afterlife, psychic phenomena, and other related subjects.